The man­age­ment of the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA), which is re­spon­si­ble for the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) in Mt Hope, has be­gun hir­ing new nurs­es to help al­le­vi­ate some of the staffing is­sues caused by sick­out ac­tion from nurs­es cur­rent­ly in the sys­tem.

Calls are in­ten­si­fy­ing for the Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism to ur­gent­ly re­store the Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion, as econ­o­mist and for­mer chair­man Dr Ronald Ramkissoon warns that con­tin­ued de­lays are un­der­min­ing the coun­try’s busi­ness en­vi­ron­ment at a crit­i­cal junc­ture.
Ramkissoon, in an in­ter­view yes­ter­day with Guardian Me­dia, cau­tioned that the ab­sence of a func­tion­ing com­mis­sion risks erod­ing in­vestor con­fi­dence and weak­en­ing the frame­work for fair com­pe­ti­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly at a time when T&T needs to strength­en its eco­nom­ic re­silience.
“One would have thought the in­com­ing ad­min­is­tra­tion would have made it eas­i­er to do busi­ness when the reg­u­la­to­ry en­vi­ron­ment is not be­ing put in place.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – The Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) has its Ja­maican fran­chise back, but it will re­turn to the crease un­der a pow­er­ful new iden­ti­ty.

Amid a year marked by can­celled jazz events and tight­en­ing fund­ing, the I Am Jazz Fes­ti­val is chart­ing a dif­fer­ent course—one de­fined not by re­treat, but by rein­ven­tion.

The peren­ni­al is­sue of the fi­nan­cial vi­a­bil­i­ty of Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is again fig­ur­ing in na­tion­al dis­course, os­ten­si­bly cen­tred around mak­ing the air­line prof­itable again.